Week 2: Everyday Use
Day 9: Writing with AI
Goal
Use AI for drafts, structure, editing, tone, and feedback.
Learn
AI is useful for first drafts, outlines, rewrites, title options, summaries, tone changes, and critique. It is weaker when the user gives no audience, no examples, and no standard for quality. The best writing workflow is: rough idea, structured prompt, draft, critique, revision, human final pass.
Behind the scenes
AI tools are products wrapped around models, data, prompts, retrieval, safety systems, and user interfaces. The better you understand the wrapper, the better your results get.Example
Example: in a real workflow, this idea helps you decide how to use AI carefully. For this lesson, connect the goal to one task you already do: use AI for drafts, structure, editing, tone, and feedback..
Practice
Ask an assistant to write a short email, then ask it to make it warmer, shorter, and clearer. Compare the versions.
Checkpoint
Checkpoint
You can use AI to improve writing without letting it erase the human message.